Sorbet

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 7 threads.

People raised many different problems with Sorbet, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Writing hard-to-understand annotations, with unreliable generated stubs and rough edges2025-12-25
5 second delay before editor shows updated errors after saving2022-07-16
Sorbet's language server is not very responsive in neovim2022-03-30
Generated gem type files mark gems as ignored, making constants unavailable2022-01-12
Forces boilerplate wrappers and unintuitive code changes that hurt readability2021-07-31
Hard to know when to rescan for new type definitions2020-08-31
Inline type annotation for local variables is clunky and awkward to write2020-07-29